Editing Barbara Boxer (section)

==U.S. representative==
[[File:Barbara Boxer 1987 congressional photo.jpg|thumb|195px|Boxer during her time in the House of Representatives]]
Boxer, then a Marin County supervisor, was elected to the [[United States House of Representatives]] in 1982, succeeding [[John Burton (American politician)|John Burton]].<ref name=history/> Her slogan was "Barbara Boxer Gives a Damn".<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/barbara-boxers-california|title=Barbara Boxer's California|first=Nathan|last=Heller|magazine=The New Yorker |date=January 13, 2015|via=www.newyorker.com}}</ref> In the House, she represented {{ushr|CA|6}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/member/barbara-boxer/B000711|title=Barbara Boxer; Congress.gov; Library of Congress}}</ref> for five terms. She narrowly won her first election with 52 percent of the vote, but easily won re-election in her subsequent races.<ref name=history/>

Boxer was a member of the original [[United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families|Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families]]<ref name="Hearing">[http://files/eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED245830.pdf Children, youth, and families: Beginning the assessment. Hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families; House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''United States House of Representatives'', Washington, DC, 28 April 1984, Original document retrieved 19 January 2014 from ERIC at Ed.gov: Institution of Education Sciences. {{dead link|date=August 2023}}</ref> that was established in 1983. She sat on the Armed Services committee throughout her tenure in the House.

In 1992, Boxer was implicated in the [[House banking scandal]], which revealed that more than 450 congressional representatives and aides, herself included, wrote overdraft checks covered by the House Bank's overdraft protection. In a statement, Boxer said, "In painful retrospect, I clearly should have paid more attention to my account". She wrote a $15 check to the Deficit Reduction Fund for each of her 87 overdrafts.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/16/us/the-house-bank-house-bank-overdrafts-add-to-voters-outrage.html?pagewanted=all |title=The House Bank; House Bank Overdrafts Add to Voters' Outrage – |work=The New York Times |date=March 16, 1992 |access-date=March 6, 2012 |first=Jeffrey |last=Schmalz}}</ref>

In 1991, during the [[Anita Hill]] Senate hearings, where Hill accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee [[Clarence Thomas]] of sexual harassment, Boxer led a group of women House members to the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]], demanding that the all-white, all-male Committee of Senators take Hill's charges seriously.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/women032798.htm |title=Clinton Woes a Snag for 3 Female Incumbents |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=March 28, 1998 |access-date=March 6, 2012}}</ref>